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Garden International Rayong’s latest published annual tuition is ฿147,000–฿609,800 for 2025/26; the school has not published 2026/27 fees as of 27 July 2026. Beyond price, Garden is the only school in this directory with a current campus-specific Council of International Schools (CIS) accreditation record. It also publishes a 100% IB Diploma pass rate for 2023 and is a current FOBISIA member; FOBISIA says Garden joined in 2002 or earlier.
Garden’s examination-results page reports a 100% Diploma pass rate in 2023, with a 31-point average and a high score of 41. It also publishes 89% and 31 points for 2022, then 100% and 35 points for 2021. Cohort sizes are not supplied, so none of those percentages should be read without asking how many pupils sat the Diploma. The current IBO directory confirms that Garden remains an authorised IB World School with active Diploma subjects.
Current Rayong programme evidence points to the IB Diploma: Garden’s curriculum, secondary and IB pages describe IBDP, the fee page labels Years 12–13 as International Baccalaureate, and the current IBO record lists pupils registered in Diploma subjects. A separate Rayong page titled “Sixth Form” describes AS and A-Level, but its text is a word-for-word duplicate of the current Garden International School Bangkok Sixth Form page, including the same named head and subject list. That makes a cross-campus publishing error the best-supported explanation, but it remains an inference. Families should ask Rayong admissions to name the exact Year 12 qualification in the written offer, and the school should correct the public contradiction.
FOBISIA’s current Garden profile says the school joined in 2002 or earlier. It does not support the school’s former “founding member” wording: FOBISIA’s own history names six founding schools, and Garden is not among them. Membership gives Garden access to the federation’s regional events and professional network; families should ask which pupil events the campus actually enters and what each trip costs.
Garden is in Ban Chang, Rayong province, near U-Tapao airport. For many Pattaya families, this is a substantial daily journey, but no single minute estimate is reliable without a home address and school-run pickup time. Garden publishes bus fees of ฿18,000–฿32,100 per term depending on zone (roughly ฿54K–฿96.3K per three-term year per child). Ask for the exact stop, pickup and drop-off before choosing housing.
Garden publishes fees per term, not per year. There are three terms in a standard school year (Foundation through Year 10), but Year 11 IGCSE and Years 12–13 IBDP run only two terms because exam sessions cut the academic year short. So when you compare Garden's headline numbers to Rugby's or Regents's per-year figures, multiply Garden's term fees by three for normal years and use the published two-term totals for exam years.
Regents has verified Sixth Form optionality (IB and A-Level), the Nord Anglia global network, and is geographically closer to Pattaya. Garden’s current IBO record supports IBDP, while its own standalone Sixth Form page still carries conflicting A-Level copy. If your child is committed to IB and external academic credentials matter most, Garden can edge Regents after admissions resolves that contradiction in writing. If you want verified curriculum flexibility at 16 or you may move countries during the school years, Regents edges Garden.
Rugby is more expensive at the top of tuition (฿999K vs Garden’s ฿609.8K), runs A-Levels and has the larger published facilities programme. Garden is IBDP-led and now publishes weekly or full boarding from Year 5. Compare peer year groups and boarding separately: the tuition maximum, the boarding bill and the two-term IB structure answer different questions.
It is worth dwelling on the CIS credential, because most parents read “accredited” as a binary and it is not. CIS accreditation requires a self-study, an evaluation visit and continuing review across the school’s systems. Plenty of schools describe themselves as “internationally accredited” on the strength of a curriculum licence or exam-centre registration. The current CIS evidence checked for this directory is campus-specific for Garden; the directory does not extend a group or historical claim to another campus without a current record. For families comparing similar brochures, that independently recorded status is a useful separator.
Garden's per-term invoicing makes the lifetime cost easy to underestimate, so run it once properly. Applying the latest published 2025/26 rate for each year from Year 1 through Year 13 produces about ฿6.33M of tuition, before annual increases and assuming the child remains on the published IBDP route. Transport is separate: at roughly ฿54K–฿96.3K per three-term year depending on zone, two children using the bus throughout those thirteen years would add about ฿1.40M–฿2.50M at today’s rates. This is scenario arithmetic, not a quote; future prices, routes and needs will change. Living nearer Ban Chang can materially reduce both the transport bill and time spent commuting.
One: the 100% Diploma pass rate is published for 2023 — ask for the full multi-year table, the average point score, and the cohort size each year. A 100% rate from a cohort of twelve means something different from a cohort of sixty, and average points (the IB's real currency for university admissions) matter more than the pass binary. Two: what is the entry policy into the Diploma — open to all Year 11 completers, or gated on IGCSE results? The answer tells you whether the pass rate reflects teaching or selection. Three: which FOBISIA events did teams actually attend last year, and at what additional cost per trip? Four: current class sizes by year group, and the school's stated maximums. None of these are gotcha questions; a school with Garden's paper record should answer all four without blinking.
Garden’s latest primary fee page still publishes 2025/26. The figures below preserve the school’s billing structure: most grades pay three terms, while Year 11 and IB Years 12–13 pay two. The correct annual range is ฿147K–฿609.8K.
| Year group | Structure | Annual amount |
|---|---|---|
| Nursery · half day | ฿49,000 × 3 terms | ฿147,000 |
| Nursery · full day | ฿89,500 × 3 terms | ฿268,500 |
| Foundation Stage 1 · half day | ฿109,100 × 3 terms | ฿327,300 |
| Foundation Stage 1 full day / FS2 | ฿128,600 × 3 terms | ฿385,800 |
| Years 1–2 | ฿139,500 × 3 terms | ฿418,500 |
| Years 3–6 | ฿149,100 × 3 terms | ฿447,300 |
| Years 7–9 | ฿165,600 × 3 terms | ฿496,800 |
| Year 10 | ฿166,700 × 3 terms | ฿500,100 |
| Year 11 | ฿247,700 × 2 terms | ฿495,400 |
| Years 12–13 · IB Diploma | ฿304,900 × 2 terms | ฿609,800 |
| Application | One-time | ฿5,000 |
| Enrolment | One-time | ฿60,000 Foundation / ฿120,000 Primary–Secondary |
| Student deposit | Refundable | ฿40,000 |
| Boarding · weekly / full | Year 5+ · annual | ฿297,000 / ฿345,000 |
| Boarding deposit | Refundable | ฿20,000 |
Transport is ฿18,000–฿32,100 per term, with a one-way rate at 80% of the return fare. Visa support is ฿15,000. EAL or Learning Support may be compulsory after assessment, but the school does not publish the price. The school also says Outdoor Education trips cost extra without publishing a tariff. Published scholarships can cover up to 25% of tuition only, replace other discounts and are reviewed annually; examination fees, trips and resource funds remain outside the award. The Year 11 and IB rows are not three-term prices: annualising them as three terms would overstate the bill. Garden has not yet published a 2026/27 schedule on its live fees page as of 27 July 2026, even though its calendar page already links 2026/27 dates, so this guide keeps the latest primary-source fee year plainly labelled rather than estimating.
If you're an IB-pathway family and want independently recorded school-wide accreditation, Garden merits a shortlist. Its campus-specific CIS record, current FOBISIA membership and school-published IB results are meaningful evidence, but they do not replace a target-year timetable, cohort size or tour. The right family has a child who will thrive in a structured IBDP route, is comfortable above ฿500K/yr at Sixth Form, and either lives near Ban Chang or has tested the real school-run journey from home.
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Garden International School, Rayong offers British, IB Diploma, IGCSE, EYFS. Ages 2-18. Verify current pathways with the school's admissions office.
Garden’s latest published 2025/26 annual tuition is ฿147,000–฿609,800. The 2026/27 tariff remains unpublished as of 27 July 2026; entry charges, boarding, transport and supplementary costs are additional.
Yes. Garden offers weekly and full boarding from Year 5. The latest school-published 2025/26 schedule is ฿297K/yr for weekly boarding or ฿345K/yr for full boarding, plus a ฿20K refundable deposit.
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